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From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:18:26 -0600
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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 06:16, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote:
> The extra uuid `field' can only suffer from typos

I should add that because the uuid `field' would be typed pretty much
only as a config variable and then used by git tools from thenceforth,
the rate at which typos can occur is much less than for the name/email
pair.